Too early to decide on spin options: Clarke

Australia captain and co-selector Michael Clarke says it is too early to make a call on playing two spinners in Saturday's second Test against India in Hyderabad.

India captain MS Dhoni said after his side's eight-wicket win yesterday in the first Test in Chennai that he felt Australia made a mistake by picking only one specialist slow bowler.

Offspinner Nathan Lyon claimed 3-215 and 1-29 in his first Test on Indian soil, amid debate over whether Australia should have discarded one of their three pacemen for back-up spinner Xavier Doherty.

India's slow bowlers claimed all 20 Australian wickets in Chennai while right-arm quick James Pattinson (5-96 and 1-13) was the pick of the bowlers for the tourists.

Left-arm paceman Mitchell Starc went wicket-less for the first time in his eight-Test career.

"If you see Australia now they rely a lot on their fast bowlers," Dhoni said.

"At the start of this series they wanted to go with what their strength was. After four days of cricket maybe Michael [Clarke] would think it would have been better if they would have gone with another spinner.

"But at times it's easier to decide on these things once a Test match is over because then you have the whole result in front of you."

Clarke said the fine debut of seam-bowling allrounder Moises Henriques, including two half-centuries, meant the Aussies could consider playing two spinners and and two frontline quicks this weekend.

"If we don't have a third fast bowler Moises can certainly do that role," Clarke said.